Improvement in crinoline-clips



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY FLETCHER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CRlNQLlNE-CLIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,091, dated April 29, 1862.

To all 2072/0727, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY FLETCHER, of 82 Vood Street, (Theapside, in the city of London, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Crinoline- (lips for securing the steel or other expanders of crinolines to the suspenders thereof and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accmnpanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consistsin forming a clip with slits or holes therein, through which are passed the suspenders of the crinoline, and likewise the steel or other expanders, or the expander-s may be otherwise connected thereto. 3y these means the clip cannot possibly become detached therefrom accidentally, as is now the case with clips as heretofore made.

The nature of this improved clip will be better understood by the following description of its form and mode of attaching same to the expanders and suspenders of crinolinesthat is to say, I first pass the suspenders through one of the slits in the clip, then over the horizontal expanders, and then through the other slit 1n the clip, and finally bend the edges of the clips tightly over the expanders, thus interlacing the expander-s with the suspenders and eiiectually connect-' ing them permanently together.

In order to explain this invention as completely as possible, I now proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked thereon, respectively, as follows: 7

vention and of the full size; Fig. 2, an edge view of said piece with the ends partly bent, as exhibited. Fi s. 3, 4, and 5, respectively, exhibit the back, the front, and the edge of the aforesaid piece of metal drawn to an exaggerated scale to explain more clearly the mode of employing the same for connecting the suspenders and expanders of crinolines.

At Fig. 1, a care slots or holes made in the clip; I) 1), parts to be turned or bent over, as at Fig. 3.

c 0 mark a portion of an expander made of steel or other suitable material.

d (Z mark a portion of a suspender made of narrow flat webbing or other suitable mate rial.

The clips are strung onto the suspenders,

according to the number of expanders to be The 0&-

required to be connected thereto. pan ders are then laid in their respective clips, bent as at Fig. 2, and when in their proper position on the suspenders the ends Z) I) of the clip are firmly bent over, as at Fig. 3, and thus the expauders are immovably connected to the suspenders, as above stated.

Having now fully described and set forth my invention, I hereby declare that I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A crinoline-clip with slots or holes therein for passing the suspenders through and connecting the expanders thereto, substantially as above described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

HENRY FLET JHER.

' Witnesses:

SAML. M. DUNN,

52 Iflng l Villium St, E. C. G. B. PHILLIPS, 3'5" M'oor Lane, E. O. 

